Joseph McAleerJoseph McAleer's books include Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain, 1914-1950, which received the inaugural Longmans History Today Book of the Year Award; Passion's Fortune: The Story of Mills & Boon; and Call of the Atlantic: Jack London's Pubishing Odyssey Overseas, 1902-1916. A Connecticut Yankee with a doctorate from Oxford, he has held a variety of interesting jobs, including college professor, administrator of the Hawthornden Castle Literary Institute, corporate PR head, spokesman for the Roman Catholic Church, publisher, and national film critic. Read More Read Less